On Tuesday, September 17 the Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival a
nd Santa Fe Middle East Watch are pleased to bring to Santa Fe one of Israel’s best known journalists and authors, MATTI FRIEDMAN. Freidman joins SFMEW’s chairman, Halley Faust,
for a conversation about the stories behind both Israel’s headlines and her enemies’ lines. Coinciding with Israel’s elections that day (results should be available), the talk could not be more timely. In addition to discussing the Israeli elections, Friedman and Faust will also discuss the influence Jews from Arab countries have had in Israeli politics, their role behind enemy lines when Israel was founded, and AP bias in media coverage of Israel.
A former Associated Press (AP) correspondent, Friedman’s work as a reporter has taken him throughout the Middle East. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Tablet Magazine, the Atlantic, and elsewhere. He will discuss his most recent book, Spies of No Country, the story of Israel’s first intelligence agents in 1948, which has received the 2018 Natan Book Award. These agents were primarily Mizrahi Jews (Jews from Friedman was born in Toronto and lives in Jerusalem with his family.
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SFMEW is a beneficiary organization of the Jewish Federation of New Mexico.